Psalms: 88, 95 Meditation Job: For a limited time, Job’s life was fraught with misery. In chapters 1-2 Job went from sublime prosperity and progeny (he had 10 adult children) and in the course of a day, he lost it all. Job’s attitude? “The LORD gave and the LORD has taken away.” (1:21) This passage …
Tag: Loss
Tuesday, August 31
Psalm: 115 Meditation Job: That Job might be depressed is not difficult to imagine. What is difficult for me to grasp is that he is not more despondent. Consider how much he had just lost. He must be tossing in his mind why all this tragedy had befallen him. Job cries out that he feels …
Sunday, November 22
Psalm: 145 Meditation Luke: This is Luke’s rendering of Matthew chapter 5 except instead of minas (1 ¼ lbs.) Matthew uses talents (75 lbs.) for the gold weight which is considerably more. The point is the same: do something with what God has given you. Even if you lose it all, you did more than …
Slowing Down and Finding Rhythm
2020 will be remembered as the year when everything was disrupted. Church was disrupted - we are meeting in the afternoons in a different church’s parking lot under a tent. School has been disrupted with many children attending classes online. Jobs have been lost, furloughed, and many more are now working from home. At the …
Saturday, April 11
Holy Saturday Psalms: 95, 88 Meditation Job: For a limited time, Job’s life was fraught with misery. In chapters 1-2 Job went from sublime prosperity and progeny (he had 10 adult children) and in the course of a day he lost it all. Job’s attitude? “The LORD gave and the LORD has taken away.” (1:21) …
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